Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post has a great piece today about how fucked the Olympics are. Read the whole thing, but her opening paragraph sums it up neatly... You only have to breathe the air to understand that these Olympics aren't about sport. They're about corporate profit, a propaganda stage for the Chinese government, and the moral collapse of the Olympic movement, but the very last thing they're about is excellence or the well-being of the athletes. I've worked on Olympic campaigns for IBM, Xerox and others. They spend a shitload of money to become one of the official sponsors. And apart from all the fucking directors and their biggest clients getting ring side seats for the big events, I honestly cannot see how all thos pillions pay off. That's why the Olympics have become a farce. Corporate sponsorship, doping scandals; excessive technology; transient patriotism; medal counts, non-stop fucking flag waving. The athletes are like lab rats, exploiting science both legally and illegally, to gain "the edge." The goal is supposedly to get the medals, but it really is to get the endorsements. The fucktard media with its soporific presentations of "personal drama" trips over itself to create a story. Which in turn sells advertising. And now an Olympics being held in a country with a vile record of human rights in an environment so polluted athletes show up wearing masks! The once great Olympics have evolved into a third- rate Super Bowl halftime show.
That's not an Olympic sport. It's fucking T&A!